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It’s time to tell the story about my contribution to very interesting and perspective project with a quite unique name Timera (origins from time and camera). Project founders have been looking a person for iOS developer position exactly at the same time when I’ve been looking new self-education frontiers for myself. The idea of project is quite simple. Its visual representation can be seen on featured post picture (the image is clickable). The user is provided with tool for making a time tunnel by combining two photos made on the same place in different time moments: first from past and second must be taken by user’s mobile device. The idea seemed interesting for me so I immediately integrated myself to the development process which promised a lot of difficult and interesting challenges. Read more…

Made a decision to write an article in notabene style. Otherwise I always forget and then painfully recall the solution of this issue I’d like to tell about. And the thing I’d like to about is how to install a font to Max OS X system, e.g. ttf (true type font) or otf (open type font). I didn’t find it in standard Settings App (maybe didn’t try too much:). Read more…

The apocalypse announced by Maya hasn’t happened so now I need to write an article with the resume of year 2012. I don’t want to spoil the tradition of previous years (2010, 2011) and first begin with review of plans for year 2012, determine its completion progress and finish with setting new plans for year 2013.
The blog seems very useful in that sense. It allows to track changes in professional interests and priorities. Looking on all achievents I can notice to myself with pleasure that my interest in software development doesn’t have any fading trends. Quite the opposite. Read more…

For a very long time I couldn’t solve one problem that appeared time by time. Until it happened again a few day ago. But this time I decided that to put up with this state of affairs is not more possible and once again began to research. And the problem is the following. Assume you have a the monochrome image (for example, the icon of the stars for the Favorites button), and a skeleton application that implements the usage of skins (customization of the user interface). If one client wants the star to be red and another client wants it to be blue, the designer would have to repaint the image each time. But there must be an easier way to give a tint color using CoreGraphics functions. Read more…

Recently I’ve learned the truth about reCAPTCHA – a project of Google good company. For reference, CAPTCHA means Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Alan Turing was the first person who coined the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) and developed a specific test to determine AI. So, the CAPTCHA is a special case of Turing test for artificial intelligence. Now, what I wanted to tell you about reCAPTCHA.Read more…

When I’m planning some long-long travelling (for instance outside the continent) I recall one movie which calls The Thirteenth Floor. The idea of this movie was taken in a couple of scince fiction books one of which (collection of stories about Ion Tilhy) belongs to Stanislav Lemm – well known maitre of sci-fi genre and another one (Simpulation-3) to Daniel F. Galouye. Basic idea is a virtual worlds that are nested to each other. A main character finds the equipment for moving to a virtual world. He’s discovering usual people living there but in fact they all are just artificial intellegence who doesn’t realize itself. Their world has a strict border and there is no familar landscapes behind it. There are just graphical primitives outside. Local people never visited that place and didn’t know they were in artificial environment. This is the way I proove to myself that we’re not ligving inunfinished world when I have some long travelling :) This time I’ve decided to make sure that the one of the World Miracle – egyptian pyramids – really exists. Read more…